Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language
Association convention in Philadelphia, starting next Monday. There
are a number of talks on humanities computing and related subjects at
the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association
for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to these talks,
based on the convention program. It is available at:

Some people might have missed the (free) registration notice below. If you
plan to come please register immediately by sending an email to Sylvie
Baruch, at Sylvie.Baruch_at_mail.biu.ac.il

Please write clearly your full name and affiliation, as you would like them
to appear on the name tag. If you plan to come just for part of the day
please indicate this information, so we can roughly estimate food
quantities.

ISCOL'04, the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, will take
place at Bar Ilan University on Monday, December 27, 2004, 10:00-17:30.
This year, we will honor Prof. Yaacov Choueka upon his retirement. The
seminar will include invited talks by Prof. Dan Roth (UIUC) and Prof.
Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan), presentations of recent products of the
Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, and scientific presentations of
language processing research in Israel.

Program (see abstracts on the web site)
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10:00-10:20 Gathering and refreshments

Registration (free)
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ISCOL'04 participants should register by sending an email to Sylvie
Baruch, at
Sylvie.Baruch_at_mail.biu.ac.il. Please use "ISCOL registration" as the
message subject
and write clearly in the message body your full name and affiliation,
as you would like them to appear on the name tag. Your email should
arrive by Tuesday, 21.12.04, at 12:00.

Location and directions
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The seminar will be held at the Beck Hall, building 410. See the map at
http://www.biu.ac.il/Tour/ for directions (you can press the "Event
Halls" tab and click "Beck 410" in the legend to get it highlighted).
The entrance to the hall is between buildings 410 and 405, at the lower
level under the bridge, in front of the Pyramid cafeteria.

Parking is outside the campus. When coming from the Bar Ilan
interchange on Geha Highway (Highway 4) turn left at the traffic light
and then keep going straight after passing the Bar Ilan main gate. The
first parking lot will soon be on your left, from which there is a
pedestrian gate that is quite close to the Beck Hall. If this lot is
full the next parking lot is further down the road, on the right. If
you have special parking needs please indicate in the registration
email that you need a guest parking permit, which is closer to the
hall.

ISCOL'04 is organized by the Department of Computer Science and the
Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics at
Bar Ilan, and is supported by the Knowledge Center for Processing
Hebrew and the Ministry of Science and Technology.